Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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I do not feel the need to play in Ligue 1, nor in the Premier League or in Serie A.
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For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.
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I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.
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I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
